The ACLU just blew a pile of donor cash on a splashy national ad campaign featuring Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” — arguing that every baby squeezed out on American soil deserves automatic citizenship, no questions asked. Doesn’t matter if the parents snuck across the border, overstayed a tourist visa, or flew in from Shanghai specifically to hit a birth tourism clinic. These are supposedly the sharpest civil rights lawyers in America, and they picked a protest song about a broke, forgotten Vietnam veteran to sell their open-borders fantasy.
Bravo! Somebody get these geniuses a poetry degree.
Quick history lesson for the younger folks. “Born in the U.S.A.” dropped in 1984 and people have been getting it wrong ever since. The song follows a guy who gets shipped off to Vietnam, watches his buddies die, comes home to absolutely nothing, and can’t even land a job at the local factory. Springsteen himself called it “a protest song.” The working title was literally “Vietnam.”
Ronald Reagan tried to co-opt it at a rally in ’84, and Democrats spent the next four decades mocking Republicans for not understanding the lyrics. Now the ACLU — the same crowd that sneered at Reagan — pulled the exact same stunt. They slapped the song on a 30-second TV spot airing during MLB Opening Day, American Idol, and Survivor, banking on that pumping fist-in-the-air chorus to drown out the part where the guy’s country chewed him up and spit him out like a piece of gum.
ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero told Rolling Stone — and we swear this is a real quote — “Even if you put the lyrics aside, the song basically makes you feel good.”
Even if you put the lyrics aside! The head of the ACLU openly admitted they’re ignoring the actual words because the beat slaps. That right there is the entire Democrat approach to governing crammed into one sentence. Ignore reality, crank up the volume, pray nobody reads the fine print. (These are the people who lecture us about “nuance,” remember.)
Springsteen signed off on the deal, naturally, calling it “good and righteous use” of his anthem. This is the same half-a-billionaire who performed at Democracy Now!’s anniversary gala alongside Angela Davis — yes, that Angela Davis, the literal Communist Party member — and debuted a new song whining about ICE agents. Real salt-of-the-earth stuff from a guy who owns a horse farm in Colts Neck, New Jersey. We’re sure he’s got tons of illegal immigrants living on his street, sharing the struggle right alongside him.
The case heading to the Supreme Court on April 1st is *Trump v. Barbara*, and it challenges President Trump’s executive order ending automatic birthright citizenship for babies born to parents who are here illegally or on temporary visas. The ACLU filed suit within two hours of Trump signing the order. Two hours. They had the lawsuit pre-loaded like a mousetrap, which tells you everything you need to know about how “spontaneous” their outrage really was.
Their lawyer Cody Wofsy claims roughly 255,000 babies a year would be “affected” over the next two decades. Scary number, right? Now pull up the actual federal data. The CDC counted approximately 9,500 births in 2024 to parents who listed a non-U.S. address as their residence. The Center for Immigration Studies pegged births to temporary visitors at about 70,000 in 2023 — less than 2% of all U.S. births that year.
So we’re talking about a fraction of a fraction of births, and Democrats want you to believe the Republic crumbles if we dare ask “Hey, are these parents actually Americans?” before handing out the most valuable citizenship on the planet like fun-size Snickers on Halloween.
U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer nailed it when he told the Court that under the current system, “Aliens could obtain the priceless gift of U.S. citizenship for their children by violating the United States’ immigration laws — and by jumping in line ahead of others who are complying with the law.” Bingo. Wealthy families from China and the Gulf states turned birth tourism into a cottage industry years ago — flying pregnant women in on tourist visas specifically to pop out a baby with a blue passport. Meanwhile, legal immigrants wait years and spend thousands of dollars doing it the right way. Democrats couldn’t care less about those people because they don’t fit the narrative.
President Trump called it out on Truth Social: “Birthright Citizenship is not about rich people from China, and the rest of the World, who want their children, and hundreds of thousands more, FOR PAY, to ridiculously become citizens of the United States of America.”
The ACLU’s legal director, Cecillia Wang, declared this case is “more than a legal case” and “a fight for what it means to be American.” Oh, spare us. This is the same organization that spent the last decade arguing America is a systemically racist hellscape built on stolen land. Apparently America is only worth celebrating when you need to hand out citizenship to people who broke the law to get here.
Democrats and their army of activist lawyers grabbed the 14th Amendment — written specifically to guarantee citizenship for the children of freed slaves after the Civil War — and drove a birth tourism bus right through it. They took an amendment designed to correct America’s original sin and turned it into an all-you-can-eat buffet for anyone who can physically reach a delivery room on U.S. soil. The men who drafted that amendment would burn their quill pens in protest.
And now they’ve hired a billionaire rock star to sing a song about how America abandons its own veterans — to argue that we should keep minting new citizens as fast as possible. If Springsteen’s angry Vietnam vet could hear this ad, he’d probably want to know where his gold-plated ACLU lawyers were when he came home to no job, no benefits, and a country that had already forgotten his name.
We predict the Supreme Court sides with President Trump on this one. And when they do, the ACLU can go back to what it does best — lighting donor money on fire and calling it “advocacy.”
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